The Left's Rhetoric Is The Real "Threat to Democracy"

The best the left could muster up regarding the second assassination attempt on Trump was saying “he should tone down the rhetoric, tone down the violence.” I guess expecting anything more than this would be to expect them to betray themselves by expressing disingenuous concern for a man the genuinely hate. One writer was a little more true to herself stating: “There is no place in politics for violence. That said, the former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of stuff on himself.” Can you imagine someone saying about a female rape victim: “She shouldn’t have been wearing that mini skirt.” But in this case, the victim is a white male conservative named Trump so it’s perfectly okay.

Did anyone on the left even remotely suggest toning down their own rhetoric? That maybe continuously calling him a fascist, a Nazis, a dictator, and a threat to democracy is the actual rhetoric that has led to a second attempt on his life?

“If you were to open a copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kempf’ you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-German with Germans as ‘poisoning.’ There is really no other way to say it, Donald Trump’s language mirrors this directly.” – Jake Tapper, CNN

“Trump and GOP repeatedly echo Nazi and far-right ideology as they aim to retake White House.” – Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times

“It is just unquestionable at this point that [Trump] cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit. He is destructive to our democracy. He has to be eliminated.” – representative Dan Goldman during MSNBC interview.

“Donald Trump has vowed that he will be a dictator on ‘day one.’ He is a threat to our democracy and our fundamental freedoms.” – Kamala Harris

“Trump is a genuine threat to this nation,” “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” – Joe Biden

This is the kind of language from people in positions of power and influence that, at the very least, fans the flames of those like Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh. Furthermore, if they were even a bit concerned with Trump’s life, would they really continue to use this kind of language? Just one day after the second assassination attempt, Hillary Clinton called Trump a “danger to our country and the world.” The sad truth is they are not concerned with his welfare and many of them wish him dead just as much as the two attempters.

Throughout all my years of living there has been only one other notable assassination attempt on a president or president nominee—Ronald Reagan in March, 1981. I was only two years old at that time and thus it was an event I don’t even remember. Forty-three YEARS have transpired since then until the first assassination attempt on Trump. And only sixty-five days have transpired from the first attempt to the second one. This is unprecedented. Trying to kill the republican president nominee multiple times in a matter of days; trying to kill the man who roughly half the country will be voting for, yet he is the biggest threat to democracy?